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As well as the beatings, he forced washing up liquid into the children's mouths if they said something he did not like and shot them with a ball bearing gun.

They were beaten for wetting the bed or dropping a can of cola.

He sexually abused his stepdaughter from the age of six to ten and raped his natural daughter when she was eight to ten.

He was branded a sadist by Judge Robert Linford as he was jailed for 30 years at Exeter Crown Court. He will serve two thirds of the sentence because he is 'an offender of particular concern'.

The man, from Redruth in Cornwall, denied but was found guilty of five counts of rape, 11 of indecent of sexual assault, one of wounding and 14 of child cruelty.

The judge told him:"This is the story of lost childhoods and also a story of the most sadistic and wicked abuse that it is almost possible to imagine a man could visit on his children and step children.

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"You have entirely destroyed the lives of these children, as is clear from their victim personal statements and the evidence which they were forced to give by your pleas on not guilty.

"Not only did you make their lives unutterably miserable, but you also visited violence on your long suffering wife.

"The acts of child cruelty came against a background of routine verbal and physical abuse. The aggravating features are sadism, threats, and concealment from others. It was hateful and extreme abuse.

"You raped your own daughter. There was every aggravating feature conceivable in this offence apart from the fact that you did not make her pregnant, and that was only because of her age.

"You degraded her and used the background of violence and threats to silence her. You abused every element of trust. The personal statements of all the victims in this case make hideous and harrowing reading.